Release Notes - PoolParty 7.1

The Ontology Management has seen a major improvement: you can now synchronize Custom Schemes and their Ontologies by a simple click. Thus any changes in an ontology are immediately propagated to the custom scheme.

In an opened custom scheme (1) you click the Add icon (2) beside Synchronized Ontologies to open the dialogue. You can start typing in the search field to search for ontologies.

Activate the check box in front of its name, multi-select is also possible. Afterwards in that section the synchronized ontologies will be listed.

This procedure is the same for Ontologies, in reverse, you select custom schemes to synchronize and they will be listed in the corresponding section afterwards.

Once the synchronization is established, synced elements are displayed in different color in the tree. These elements cannot be removed from the scheme.

When the connection between a scheme and an ontology is removed you can choose to keep the current status or remove all elements of the ontology from the custom scheme.

The NLP Interchange Format is a set of tools that are now available for the PoolParty extractor in order to enable you to return annotations for texts in NIF-compliant RDF format.

In order to take advantage of it, you would use the two new Web Service Method: Annotate from Text in NIF Format that have been implemented based on this format, namely extractor/api/annotate/nif , one providing the content type application/x-www-form-urlencoded for POST and GET requests. The second one can be used for POST requests in application/json format.

ThePoolParty Extractor APIhas been enhanced to allow for multilingual extraction. It is now possible to match labels in different languages in just one Extractor call. This not only is convenient because it reduces the number of calls for multilingual extraction, but is the solution for cases where concepts appear in different languages in the same piece of text.

PoolParty offers a heap of sophisticated settings and options to configure separately for anExport RDF Project Data.

To enable a quick and fast custom export at any time, we now implemented export templates you can save and reuse.

In the export menu a new item is available to open the Export Templates dialogue. It also lists all existing templates. It lets you choose a name for the template and define settings you can save for later.

Additionally, you can now exclude data from the export, when you select the option Concepts in the Thesaurus Data field. An additional drop down becomes available then and lets you choose from the list of all properties available in th project, which properties for concepts should be excluded.

To select an export template you created, start an Export RDF Project Dataor Export a Subtree to RDF, and in the Template drop down, choose from the available templates. You can start exporting by clicking Export. You also can select additional options to extend the chosen template.

The UnifiedViews APIs has been extended. This implementation has a big advantage compared to previous procedures, since the execution of pipelines is simplified as parameters do not have to be uploaded and then read by the pipeline anymore. These new API calls let you execute pipelines while defining or replacing configuration parameters inside DPUs, additionally to the execution calls available so far.

Additionally, working with pipelines is made easier this way, since numerous copies of pipelines with different sets of parameters are now a matter of the past.

The following calls are now additionally available:

This way you can define individual string configuration parameters to replace existing ones in DPUs inside a pipeline, in part or all of them. Alternatively you can define one JSON file instead of individual strings to replace whole or part of the existing configuration. You can now also use an RDF file in Turtle format as replacement, in case the respective DPU supports Dynamic Configuration of the DPU Using RDF Configuration.

Elasticsearch Version Upgrade: as of PoolParty 7.1, you have to update Elasticsearch to version 6.5.4. in order to work with PoolParty's search index functionalities, such as GraphSearch. Take care to upgrade your indices accordingly when updating PoolParty.

You can now use the export menu on all levels of your PoolParty thesaurus to export to Excel as well as CSV. The corresponding menu entry is called Tabular Project Export and Tabular Subtree Export respectively.

In the Tabular Subtree Export dialogue shown below (1), similar to the Tabular Project Export dialogue, you find the additional option Format, in a drop down, where you can choose between Excel or CSV as target export format (2).

In all other respects, export options are similar to the Export an Excel Sheet from PoolParty available already.

Similarly you can import CSV or Excel, on project level for example, using the Tabular Import dialogue, as shown below. Other import levels work similarly, and details can be found on the respective documentation pages in the respective chapter: PoolParty RDF Import & Export

The following Drupal modules we offer for you to be able to seamlessly integrate PoolParty functionalities with Drupal. They have been updated to be compatible with the listed Drupal versions:

The subtree export in PoolParty has been updated: you find the functions in two menu item entries and options have been added that were available in project export only, before, namely:

The additional functions associated with the new options are similar to the ones for project export, described above. That is, you can choose from custom templates, decide if you would rather download or store to a remote triple store configured in the Semantic Middleware Configurator - Overview.

In PoolParty you can create Collections from inside your thesaurus, in order to group concepts independent from the hierarchical structure.

The interface has been overhauled and improved, yet well-known functions are still easily found in place, such as the expand arrows on the left of each concept entry (1).

As of version 7.1 an export function has been added here as well, accessible via the collection's context menu (2). Similarly to the RDF Subtree Export described above, in the Collection Export dialogue you can select custom export templates or use individual settings, such as the exclusion of data during export (3).

In ordered collections now use RDF lists as defined in the SKOS recommendation. Use the Arrow icon at the end of each entry to re-order concepts in the collection.

In the subsequent Move to Index dialogue, enter a new number for the position of that concept, and click Move (4).

Search Spaces in GraphSearch let you define quickly how to display data in the GraphSearch interface once you have created your thesaurus and custom scheme or schemes.

How to Access PoolParty's GraphSearch Admin Dashboard (1) in your GraphSearch interface that here shows an already configured Search Space, you can Create a Search Space using the dialogue.

Search Spaces can now be have the status PUBLIC or PRIVATE.

By using the Search Space Access Type drop down (2) you can define which of the two options should be applied. That way a Search Space is either accessible with our without credentials.

PoolParty's APIs have seen a number of changes and improvements. The whole documentation of the APIs find here: